peter hessler

Censored Essay: Peter Hessler Sells His Car

Acclaimed writer Peter Hessler is selling his car in Chengdu, after leaving China in 2021 when his teaching contract was abruptly terminated. Online, the sale of his Honda CRV has spurred a series of reflections on Hessler’s...

Peter Hessler’s ‘Strange Stones’ Reviewed

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Pallavi Aiyar reviews Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler, former China correspondent for The New Yorker. She discusses the tight focus of Hessler’s writing on...

Sinica: The Evan Osnos Exit Interview

On the Sinica podcast, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn talk to The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos as he prepares to leave Beijing after eight years. Osnos describes his forthcoming book, due in Spring 2014, on “the power of...

Return to River Town

Peter Hessler, the former New Yorker correspondent in Beijing, also wrote a best-selling book in 2001, River Town, which documented his two years teaching English as a Peace Corps volunteer in a town that was on the verge of...

A Reporter’s Revelatory Journey to 1990s China

Peter Hessler, a journalist at The New Yorker, is contributing to an anthology being published in September. The book, Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land, “tries to bring the diversity of...

Reading List: Peter Hessler

The New Yorker’s former China correspondent Peter Hessler is among the 2011 MacArthur Fellows, whose awards were announced on Tuesday. To mark this, The New Yorker has collected links to all of Hessler’s...

Peter Hessler: Behind the Wheel, About to Snap

On China Beat, Peter Hessler writes about the role that photography played in his trip across China that spawned his new book, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory: From my perspective, the digital...

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